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Program

Preservation and Access: Reference Materials - Tools

Period of Performance

7/1/1976 - 6/30/1978

Funding Totals

$25,405.00 (approved)
$25,405.00 (awarded)

The Role of Medieval Jewish Communities in the Transmission of Scientific Ideas

FAIN: RT-10188-76

University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6133)
Bernard R. Goldstein (Project Director: July 1976 to present)

To catalogue and analyze all astronomical tables preserved in medieval Hebrew manuscripts in order to clarify the role of these texts in the transmission of scientific knowledge from antiquity and the Islamic world to the Latin West.